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قراءة كتاب Heroes of To-Day
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ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| John Muir Among His Beloved Trees | Frontispiece |
| John Muir and John Burroughs in the Yosemite Valley | 25 |
| Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell | 55 |
| The Hospital at St. Anthony, Northern Newfoundland | 66 |
| Captain Robert F. Scott | 87 |
| Jacob A. Riis | 110 |
| The Jacob A. Riis Settlement | 119 |
| Edward L. Trudeau | 146 |
| First Sanitarium Cottage Built | 155 |
| Major Goethals | 178 |
| The “Man of Panama” at Panama | 195 |
| Bishop Peter T. Rowe | 213 |
| Samuel P. Langley | 248 |
| Rupert Brooke | 274 |
| Herbert C. Hoover | 300 |
| The Belgian Children’s Christmas Card | 317 |
THE LAIRD OF SKYLAND: JOHN MUIR
Nature’s peace will flow into you
As sunshine into trees;
The winds will blow their freshness into you,
And the storms their energy;
While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
John Muir.
HEROES OF TO-DAY
THE LAIRD OF SKYLAND
A SMALL Scotch laddie was scrambling about on the storm-swept, craggy ruins of Dunbar Castle. He was not thinking of the thousand years that had passed over the grim fortress, or of the brave deeds, celebrated in legend and ballad, that its stones had witnessed. He was glorying in his own strength and daring that had won for him a foothold on the highest of the crumbling peaks, where he could watch the waves dash in spray, and where, with out-flung arms and face aglow with exultation, he felt himself a part of the scene. Sea, sky, rocks, and wild, boy heart seemed mingled together as one.
Little John Muir loved everything that was wild. The warnings and “skelpings” of his strict father could not keep him within the safe confines of the home garden. The true world was beyond—the salt meadows, with nests of skylarks and field-mice, the rocky pools along the shore where one might find crabs, eels, and all sorts of interesting scaly creatures. But above all, there were the rocky heights where one might climb.
Sometimes the truant was